The Brookhaven leader., 1887-01-13

Il her d~zllng coroneh W no N snct ONof
what realm on earth was she queeni In
| what great Dusseldorf festival was she the
! cantatricei Neither She was an invalid
who never left her room for twenty years;
but she was strong in prayer, and she
| prayed down revival after revival, and PEN
| tecost after pentecost, upon the churches,
/ and with her pale hands she knit many a
mitten or tippet for the poor and with her
| contrivances she added Joy to many holl-
/ day festival, and now, with those thin
hands so strong for kindness, and with
those white lips 50 strong for supplication,
she has won coronation, and enthrone-
ment, and jubilee. And Christ says TO the
angels who have brought each a crown for
the glorified invalid "No not these; they
are not good enough. But in the jeweled
| vase at the right hand side of my throne
there is one that have been preparing for
many year, and for her every paug have
set an amethyst, and for her every good I
! have set pearl Fetch il now and fulfill
| the promise | gave her long ago IN the
sick room: "Be thou faithful unto death
| and will give thee crown Of life
| But notice that there is only one being in
| the universe who can aud will distribute
| the trophies of Heaven and earth. II is
/ the Devine ruler, the COmmander-in-C Chief
of the centuries, the Champion of the ages,
the Universal Conqueror the Son of God,
Jesus You will take the spoIls from His
| hand, or never take them at all. Have
His friendship and you may defy all time
and eternity; but without it you were q
| pauper, though you had a universe at your
| command.
We are told in Revelation that Jacobs
| twelve sons were so honored as to have
/ the twelve gates of Heaven named after
| them-over one gate of Heaven Naphtal;
over another gate of Heaven, Issachar;
| over another, Dan; over another, Cad;
| over another, Zebulon; over another,
! Judah, and so on. But Chrlsts name is
written over all the gates and on every
| panel of the gates, and have His help, His
| pardon, His intercession, His atOncment
must, or be a furlOrn wretch forever. My
| Lord and My Cod make me and all who
| hear me this day, and all to whom these
words shall come, be Thy repentant, be-
| lieving sworn, consecrated and rausomed
| followers forever
What day it will be! This entire assem-.
blage would rise to your feet If you could
realize it. the day in which Christ shall, in
fultillment of my text, divide the spoIl. 1t
was a eat day when Queen Victoria, in
| the midst of the Crimean war, distributed
medals to the soldiers who had come home
| sick and wounded. At the Horse Guards,
| in the presence of the royal family, the in
| jured men were carried in or came on
| crutcheS-ColUnel Trowbridge, who lost
| both feet at InkermanS and Captain Sayer,
| who had the ankle Joint of his right leg
| shot of at Alma; and Captain Currie, his
disabled limb supported by a soldier, and
| others manned, and distgured, and ex-
! hausted-and with her own hand the Queen
| gave each the Crimean medal. And what
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further on, they received the French medal
| with the imperial eagle, and the Turkish
| medal with its representation of four flags
France. Turkey. England and Sardinia
and beneath it map Of Crimea spread over
| gun wheel.
| And what rewards are suggested to all
| readers of history by the mere mention Of
the Waterloo medal, AMI the Cape medal,
| and the Gold Cross medal, and the medal
struck for bravery in our American war.
| But how insignificant are these compared
| with the day when the the good soldiers Of
Jesus Christ shall come in out of the bat
ties of this world, and in the presence OF
all the piled up glories Of the redeemed
and unfallen, Jesus, our King shall divide
| the spoil. The more wounds, the greater
the inheritance. The longer the forced
march, the more vivid the trophy. The
|
untroubled the trans sport. Not the gift OF
brilliant ribbon or medal of brass or
silver or gold, but a kingdom in which we
| are to reign forever aud ever Mansions
| on the eternal hills, dominions of unfad ng
| power, empires of unending love, CONT
| nents of unending light, Atlantic and
| Pacific Oceans of billoWing JOY.
1t was "a great day when Aurelian, the
Roman Emperor came back from his vic
| tories In the front of the procession wore
wild beasts from all lanis, 1,6JJ gladiators
richly clad, wagon loads of crowns pre-
sented by conquered cities; among the
captives, Syrians, Egyptians, GOths, Van
! dals, Samaritaus, Franks; and Zcnobia,
the beautiful captive Queen, on foot in
| chains of gold that a slave had to help her
carry, and jewels under the weight of
which she almost tainted. And then came
| the chariot of Aurelian, drawn by four Gle
| plants in gorgeous caparison, and followed
/ by the Roman Senate and the Roman army,
and from dawn till dark the procession was
| passing. Rome in all her history never
! saw any thing more magnificent, But
| how much greater the day when our
! ConquerUr Jesus, shall ride under the trl-
umphat arches of Heaven; HIS captiVes,
! hand or foot or in chariotS, all the kingdoms
| OF earth and Heaven; in procession the
| armies celestial on white horses. Rumbling
artillery of thunderbolts never again to
be unlimbered. Kingdoms in line, centuries
! i'll line. sanity, cherubic, seraphic, archtn-
! gehc splendors in line, and Christ seated
| on one great rolling hosanna, made out of
! all halleluidhs of all worlds, shall cry haiti
to the procession. And not forgetting even
the humblest in all the reach of His omni-
presence, he shall rise, and then and there,
His work done and His glory consunmatcd,
proceed amid an ecstacy such rs neither
mortal nor immortal ever imagined, to
! divide the spoil.